Malcolm Roy Beasley (born January 4, 1940, in San Francisco)[1] is an American physicist. He is professor emeritus of applied physics atStanford University. He is known for his research related tosuperconductivity.[2]
Beasley was born atStanford hospital, moving toHawaii duringWorld War II with his parents, who were social scientists.[3] He was a high school and collegebasketball player, earning All-Metropolitan honors atMontgomery Blair High School inSilver Spring, Maryland,[4] and playing for theCornell Big Red in 1958-59.[5]
AtCornell University, Beasley earned hisbachelor's degree in engineering physics in 1962 and hisPh.D. in 1967.[6] His Ph.D. thesisFlux creep in hard superconductors[7] was supervised byWatt W. Webb.[8]
Beasley joined the faculty of Harvard University in 1968 where he remained until accepting a position at Stanford in 1974.[9] He was recruited to Stanford byTheodore Geballe, and afterAharon Kapitulnik joined the applied physics department, the three Stanford superconductivity researchers became known as the "KGB Group."[3]
In 1991, Beasley was elected a Fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences.[1] He was elected a member of theNational Academy of Sciences in 1993.[2]
In 1998, Beasley was named dean of theSchool of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford.[3]
In 2002, Beasley served as chairman of theJan Hendrik Schön commission, which determined that Schön fabricated much of his published research.[10]
In 2011, Beasley was elected to the Presidential line of theAmerican Physical Society, becoming APS President in 2014.[11]
Malcolm (Mac) Beasley, Montgomery Blair, Forward, All-Metropolitan First Team
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